This paper investigates the syntax of comparative deletion and comparative subdeletion in English and argues that the apparently paradoxical behavior of these two types of clausal comparative constructions is not due to a derivational distinction between them as suggested by Kennedy (2002) and Fults (2005a, b). Kennedy (2002) presented an analysis in which comparative deletion involves overt movement and deletion of a compared constituent, while comparative subdeletion involves covert movement of the same element. However, I argue that both comparative deletion and comparative subdeletion involve the same type of overt movement and deletion of a compared phrase in SpecCP of the comparative clause. I suggest that the syntactic differences between the two types of comparatives, such as comp-trace effects, contraction, multiply-headed comparatives, and parasitic gap licensing, can be properly explained by A``-movement and deletion.